I guess I meant the web advertising business. Since they are the premier site hosting service, the dream would be to launch a site and have it pay for itself with ads, but they haven't gone there for some reason.
Or search. Seems like they could give Google a run. I'd assume they have the infra and the expertise. I'd also assume someone there has already had that idea and run the numbers and decided against it. Maybe they have a gentleman's agreement with Google that they won't compete and Google will reduce their ad rates.
They already do give Google a major run for their money in probably the most important search category - product search, where they have a 54 percent market share. That's the most ad friendly category - people looking to buy stuff! When you want to buy something - how often do you type it into Google, versus go to Amazon and type it into their search bar? I really doubt there's a gentlemans agreement - bezos does not seem like that kind of guy, and they are really causing a lot of pain for Google eating into what should be one of their most profitable advertising streams.
